A five-year, $16-million grant from the National Cancer Institute will take advantage of specialized expertise developed by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore, the University ...
Bio & Medicine
Jan 3, 2011
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Stress affects the congenital immune defence system. New doctoral research has revealed how stress can lower the immunity of salmon and increase its susceptibility to viral infection.
Ecology
Jan 2, 2013
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More than two thousand years ago, Greek philosopher Aristotle observed that larger animals tend to live longer than smaller ones. On June 18 in the journal Developmental Cell, scientists report that it's cell size, not body ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 18, 2018
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About 50,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed annually with head, neck, nasal and oral cancers. Most are treated with radiation, and of those, 70-80 percent develop a painful and debilitating side effect called severe oral ...
Biochemistry
Aug 20, 2018
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By combining an iron oxide nanoparticle, a tumor-targeting peptide, and a therapeutic nucleic acid into one construct, a team of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have created ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 28, 2010
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Proteins are the workhorses of the cell. Their activity is often controlled by adding or removing chemicals called phosphates, like switching an electrical current on or off. Measuring how many proteins are phosphorylated, ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 10, 2019
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A research team led by Dr. Ho Sang Jung of the Surface & Nano Materials Division of the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), a research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, conducted joint research with ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 14, 2023
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In a recent study in mice, researchers found a way to deliver specific drugs to parts of the body that are exceptionally difficult to access. Their Y-shaped block catiomer (YBC) binds with certain therapeutic materials forming ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 24, 2019
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Funded by a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, University of Chicago scientists are aiming to develop a reliable method for determining how biological processes emerge from molecular interactions. The method ...
Biochemistry
Mar 3, 2010
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Take a skin cell from a patient with Type 1 diabetes. Strip out everything that made it a skin cell, then reprogram it to grow into a colony of pancreatic beta cells. Implant these into your patient and voilà! She's producing ...
Biochemistry
Jul 18, 2010
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